For those who already own Mass Effect, lets hear about it!!!

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As the title suggests, if you own Mass Effect tell us what its like, is it worth all the hype?
 
It's better than I thought. Wish I hadn't have chosen a chick as my character though, kinda want to go back and redo the beginning as a dude.

Edit: I'd say more but I'm letting a friend borrow it, so I haven't played all the much of the game. Although the graphics do look really crisp and the voice conversation with characters are nice.
 
Are the graphics as good as they look in the videos, and how about the combat gameplay?
 
Yeah, they are although some of the lighting effects get annoying during conversations as the camera switches from character to character.

The combat system works well enough. Controls don't feel as solid as Gears, but the system is still pretty cool. You can use your team member's abilities on enemies whilst in combat. (Which is good, because I'd rather no have them use them. XD)
 
Awesome, but I'd rather be controlling it with a keyboard and mouse. I'm not overly fond of controllers.
 
I am wondering, how do people already have the game when it does not ship until next week?
 
Kmart put it out early. One of my friends stumbled across it accidentally.

Stoked didn't begin to describe it.
 
Kahnvex said:
Kmart put it out early. One of my friends stumbled across it accidentally.

Stoked didn't begin to describe it.
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I imagine there are a few Kmart employees that were escorted roughly out the door with final paycheck in hand after that slip.
 
Defective said:
I imagine there are a few Kmart employees that were escorted roughly out the door with final paycheck in hand after that slip.
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If Kmarts around the country are doing it, it is probably the result of a high-up decision rather than having tons of Kmart stores randomly deciding to release it early.
 
PWMK2 said:
If Kmarts around the country are doing it, it is probably the result of a high-up decision rather than having tons of Kmart stores randomly deciding to release it early.
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Oh, I'm sure, but that is a big problem for them. Per their aggreements with the publishers, they usually pay a penalty for each game sold prior to the launch date as well as being barred from recieving pre-shipped games for a period of time. I was talking to a Gamestop employee who told me what the penalties were. They are high enough for the offending employee or employees to fear for their job if they are responsible.
 
Defective said:
Oh, I'm sure, but that is a big problem for them. Per their aggreements with the publishers, they usually pay a penalty for each game sold prior to the launch date as well as being barred from recieving pre-shipped games for a period of time. I was talking to a Gamestop employee who told me what the penalties were. They are high enough for the offending employee or employees to fear for their job if they are responsible.
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yeah, I have a buddy who manages for gamestop. They take it a little more seriously than most because thats all they do, sell games. So if their precious pre-order racket was ever interrupted by a fuck-up like this, it could seriously cause them to hemorrhage funds on future big name titles.

Your Kmarts/Wal-marts/Circuit City's/Best Buys etc don't really have as big a worry about it, because they don't *really* presell, of course theres always exceptions, but it's not their bread and butter. A lot of them get their titles drop shipped the day of anyway, especially in lesser markets where the stores are smaller and games aren't that big of a deal.

Hell, my Circuit City, from the time I worked there years ago, up to this very day, STILL gets their games delivered the morning of, with very few exceptions. They barely had CoD4 in by the 2pm promise date in their ad this last Tuesday. Our Kmart that put it out early? Less than 10 copies received, period, and there were two copies left.

Gamestop gets all gloom and doom because it's hammered into their heads, and lorded over them every release. My friend gets all giggly when he hears about broken release dates because "they are so fucked", in his words.

It's really gay, because nothing ever comes out of it. When's the last time anybody remembers hearing about a big box store getting penalized over street date violation on games? Anybody? I can't for the life of me recall once thats been publicly talked about, or find any record on Google of it.

If anybody remembers an instance I'd love to hear about it...
 
PWMK2 said:
If Kmarts around the country are doing it, it is probably the result of a high-up decision rather than having tons of Kmart stores randomly deciding to release it early.
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Oh, I'd say it's probably more like random screwups. I don't when the last time you frequented a Kmart was, but uh, yeah. We have two Kmarts here. One looks like a bomb went off inside it, and the aftermath is that shit was just randomly placed back on all the shelfs. There are never any employees around, shit is strewn everywhere, EVERYWHERE. I really should take pictures sometime.

The other isn't awful, but it ain't good. One didn't have it in yet at all (or they simply don't know it's there yet), thats the "bomb" store. The other, which is slightly better managed, put it out early.

Go figure.
 
There also needs to be some distinguishing between internal penalties and penalties levied by the publishers. IIRC, Best Buy actually has an INTERNAL policy where corporate fines stores that break street dates to the tune of $10,000. That's why you hardly ever see them screw up on this.

I'll hit my local Target to see if they've got it, but either way, I do have a GameStop pre-order. And I hate myself for doing the pre-order, too.
 
Defective said:
I imagine there are a few Kmart employees that were escorted roughly out the door with final paycheck in hand after that slip.
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I worked at K-Mart for a little over 7 months, even managed the electronics dept., and believe me, nobody got fired over putting a game out early.

K-Mart doesn't care about its electronics section at all... in fact, it only accounts for 2 or 3% of their overall sales.

I doubt anyone who works in that chain, whether it's at the store or corporate level, knows or cares what a "Mass Effect" is. I had employees constantly being putting stuff out for sale that was street dated, but we never got fined - nobody cares about K-Mart in the least bit. Gamestop, Wal-Mart, etc etc, these are big huge chains that make money, if they break a street date, yea, it's a big deal, Gamestop is a big deal. But if K-Mart breaks a street date? Big whoop. Usually they don't even get games on time to begin with.

I know at the 360 launch my store received 0, as did many other K-Mart's.
 
Roufuss said:
I worked at K-Mart for a little over 7 months, even managed the electronics dept., and believe me, nobody got fired over putting a game out early.

K-Mart doesn't care about its electronics section at all... in fact, it only accounts for 2 or 3% of their overall sales.

I doubt anyone who works in that chain, whether it's at the store or corporate level, knows or cares what a "Mass Effect" is. I had employees constantly being putting stuff out for sale that was street dated, but we never got fined - nobody cares about K-Mart in the least bit. Gamestop, Wal-Mart, etc etc, these are big huge chains that make money, if they break a street date, yea, it's a big deal, Gamestop is a big deal. But if K-Mart breaks a street date? Big whoop. Usually they don't even get games on time to begin with.

I know at the 360 launch my store received 0, as did many other K-Mart's.
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Hehe, I didn't think about it that way. I thought that the games area would have pulled decent revenue like it does for Walmart. I've never worked at those stores though.
 
How many people do you know of that shop in a K-Mart?

How many of those people buy games at a K-Mart?

Not to be an asshole or judgmental or anything, but a lot of people coming in to K-Mart were kind of lower society and really didn't have the money to spend on games, much less $60 ones.

Working there for that 7 months was the worst job I've ever had, and I've worked in quite a few retail places. The stores are a mess and employees do nothing because the employees get treated like shit.

I worked my ass off redoing my dept and making it profitable, and my reward was being the first one laid off.
 
Roufuss said:
How many people do you know of that shop in a K-Mart?

How many of those people buy games at a K-Mart?

Not to be an asshole or judgmental or anything, but a lot of people coming in to K-Mart were kind of lower society and really didn't have the money to spend on games, much less $60 ones.

Working there for that 7 months was the worst job I've ever had, and I've worked in quite a few retail places. The stores are a mess and employees do nothing because the employees get treated like shit.

I worked my ass off redoing my dept and making it profitable, and my reward was being the first one laid off.
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Its funny that KMart takes the "low rent" crown from Walmart but it is true. I tend to think of it filling the same slot as Walmart in certain areas. I guess those areas aren't going to be the kind of areas where they are going to be buying freshly released games.
 
Defective said:
Its funny that KMart takes the "low rent" crown from Walmart but it is true. I tend to think of it filling the same slot as Walmart in certain areas. I guess those areas aren't going to be the kind of areas where they are going to be buying freshly released games.
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Well, Wal-Mart really caters to everyone... love it or hate it, Wal-Mart is at least clean, things are pretty organized, and sometimes it's just conveinent to stop in there.

K-Mart is never conveinent... they could have Mass Effect three weeks early and I still wouldn't go in ;)

Well, I wouldn't have a choice... no K-Mart's within 50 miles of me lol.
 
Defective said:
Its funny that KMart takes the "low rent" crown from Walmart but it is true. I tend to think of it filling the same slot as Walmart in certain areas. I guess those areas aren't going to be the kind of areas where they are going to be buying freshly released games.
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Actually, where I live, Wal-Mart is worse inside; but most K-Mart's have closed in my area, or a distance away.

Anyway, I know of a few who got it, but I was considering checking the K-Mart in my college town just to see if they have it in.
 
Kahnvex said:
When's the last time anybody remembers hearing about a big box store getting penalized over street date violation on games? Anybody? I can't for the life of me recall once thats been publicly talked about, or find any record on Google of it.
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When Media Play broke the Sonic 2s Day Street Date for the Genesis we were hit hard with fines. I think we were also hit with having our shipments from Sega delayed until after the release date for a while due to the mess up. I know we were hit with heavy fines for every copy sold.

It was such a long time ago, I can't remember the specifics.
 
It seems many of you people have been wired to side with the big corporations even if there policies aren't consumer friendly (kinda sad) Kmart doesn't give a shit about "street dates" because the margins these stores make on the video game is slim. They rely on the foot traffic to their other electronic items these games provide. besides whats the point of making consumers wait over two weeks for a game that is ready now? Simple, microsoft doesn't want competition between ass creed and mass effect. They know that if they delay mass effect the gamer junkies (us) are bound to get ass creed in the mean time. Good for them but sucks for us. Yay for Piracy! (know i'll probably get flamed for this but I really couldn't care less).

I doubt anyone at these retail stores would lose a job over this I'm sure broken street dates on a damn video game isn't gonna make any sane manager can an employee (it's not like its tardstop or gaybgames) I didn't get my copy from kmart however just thought I'd share my opinion on that.



****WARNING MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS*** (probably not)

Right now I have played quite a bit of mass effect. I even ditched "ass creed" 30 minutes in because I just wasn't into the repetitive gameplay. (repeptitive is ok sometimes but not when you get little reward for it). My time in game (mass effect) reports 9hours I think but that may be because I spent a nice amount of time (about 38 minutes) gambling on the citadel. There are side quests you can go on if you choose and you usually pick up some credits (cash) or omni gel for your trouble. The story is interesting lots and lots of detail you can tell these guys really put alot of thought into it. If you're into sci fi and shit you'll probably really love this game.
 
cornfield said:
****WARNING MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS*** (probably not)

Right now I have played quite a bit of mass effect. I even ditched "ass creed" 30 minutes in because I just wasn't into the repetitive gameplay. (repeptitive is ok sometimes but not when you get little reward for it). My time in game (mass effect) reports 9hours I think but that may be because I spent a nice amount of time (about 38 minutes) gambling on the citadel. There are side quests you can go on if you choose and you usually pick up some credits (cash) or omni gel for your trouble. The story is interesting lots and lots of detail you can tell these guys really put alot of thought into it. If you're into sci fi and shit you'll probably really love this game.
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yeah, somebody not talking about fucking K-mart!!
 
I am trying to finish the paper novel before next week when I can pick up my copy of the game. I will say this. Mass Effect is a game I have had the biggest boner over for the last 2 years.

Besides FFX, KOTOR was simply an amazing RPG.

I am so jealous that you guys got early copies.
 
It's funny, my wal-mart (supercenter, with a grocery store+subway+car repair center, etc) is literally across the road from the local K-mart.

The wal mart here is quite new as well, they've re-built/moved the store about three times in the past 15'ish years, and the new one sucks. It doesn't even look like they finished it on the inside (it looks more like a warehouse then a finishied store, with bare rafting/floors that aren't even tiled, etc), they constantly run out of stock on something and don't bother to reorder more.

The k-mart is actually whalt I'd consider more clean/better, at least they restock things when they run out.

My k-mart got in mass effect, sold out of them before I could get any. I called a town over and they had them instock, but then I heard some manager guy tell the guy I was talking to that they weren't supposed to sell them :mad:.

So I just said to hell with it and pre ordered the LE on amazon like two days ago, and I'm lucky too, because they aren't selling it anymore.

One thing that has me worried is the game length and non-main planets to explore. I've heard people finishing it in just 15'ish hours as well as the side-quests being quite generic and un-interesting with the planets being very un-artistically designed and just like someone hit a basic "generate land" design on them with very polygonal terrain and things (IE: Star wars galaxies worlds, some of the absolute worst terrain/environments I've seen in a game).
 
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